Preaching In the West Coast For 10 Days
Hi friends,
With a subtitle like that, you may be wondering if I’m talking about beautiful blonds with curvaceous bodies in tiny red bikinis sunbathing in the beaches of California.
Nope.
Yes, I write this from Los Angeles, USA, but I’m not “beaching”. I’m in my 10-day West Coast […]
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Day 12: Pilgrims Live In Tents, Not Castles
Another Day In Rome:
St. John Lateran, Scala Santa, & A Visit To OFWs
Let me begin with a story I love to share.
One day, a tourist with a camera visited a monastery—and saw how austere the room […]
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Day 12: Pilgrims Live In Tents, Not Castles
Another Day In Rome: St. John Lateran, Scala Santa, & A Visit To OFWs
Let me begin with a story I love to share.
One day, a tourist with a camera visited a monastery—and saw how austere the room of a monk was. He could only see a single […]
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Day 11: You Are A Holy Site
A Day In The Vatican
Today, we visited The Vatican and St. Maria Maggiore—one of the four major basilicas of Rome.
And man, was it overwhelming. I’ve been here four or five times before, but each time, it still hits me with a force of a tsunami.
No words […]
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Day 10: Does God Live In Rome?
Assisi To Rome
Before telling you what we did, let me tell you a story.
One day, a man was in Paris and attended Mass. After communion, he went to the altar to light some candles. He was surprised to see a golden telephone on the altar, and with this […]
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Day 9: How Radical Is Your Love?
A Day In Assisi
I love Assisi. It’s simply gorgeous. But I guess you know that I’m biased. (More on this later.)
It’s a 2000-year old Roman city atop a hill, with winding cobbled roads and fortress walls. But it was St. Francis and St. Claire that has made this place […]
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Day 8: To Succeed In Life,
You Need To Use Your Failures
From Pisa To Sienna To Assisi
From our hotel, the leaning tower of Pisa was a stones throw away. It was utterly beautiful; I kept walking to it just to stare at it one more time.
As a child, I loved reading about the leaning […]
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Day 7: Find God In Unexpected Places
From Nice, France, To Pisa, Italy
This is ironic.
Because our pilgrim group was going to Rome, our bus had to pass the French Riviera and stay one night in Nice. Does that place ring a bell?
I don’t know about you, but I only hear “French Riviera” when I read about […]
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Day 6: How Can You Be Healed?
From Lourdes To Nice, France
This morning, we had a lovely open-air Mass at the Lourdes Grotto itself. We were all in hats and raincoats under the gentle rain. It was simply beautiful.
It was a concelebrated Mass—with priests from America, Ireland, France, and the Philippines leading us. Around me […]
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Day 5: Let Rivers Of Love Flow Out Of Your Life
From Loyola, Spain, to Lourdes, France
From Loyola in Spain, we crossed the French border. It was Sunday when we drove into beautiful Lourdes.
Our Mass was at a convent near our hotel. But Fr. Joseph Skelton had to do a 30-minute Sunday Mass (I’ve never […]
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